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| Bob's Tools | |
| 5514 Pacific Street #180, Rocklin, California 95677 | |
| Details: Bob's Tools is a store that specializes in tools for the automotive industry. Whether you are a home mechanic or a Professional Mechanic, we have it all! We carry new and used tools. Ingersoll Rand, Genius, SK, GearWrench, Irwin, Lisle, VIM, Milton, Aircat, Hutchins, Viking, OTC, Lincoln, Streamlight and many more. We often carry used Snap On Tools, Mac Tools, Matco Tools, and Cornwell Tools products. Come visit our store today....we are across from the Rocklin Post office. If I don't stock an item that you need, I can have it the next business day! I look forward to seeing you! Bob Trimpey Bob's Tools Hardware hand tools are used by craftsmen in manual operations, such as chopping, chiseling, sawing, filing, forging, and more. The date of the earliest tools is uncertain. Tools found in northern Kenya in 1969 maybe about 2,600,000 years old, and even older tools may remain to be discovered. History of Cars For 10 decades, cars have been defining us, telling the world who we are. And it's the cars that reflect the times of the 20th century. From Henry Ford's Tin Lizzie, to the beauty of Fred Duesenberg's creations, to the overloaded jalopies that inched their way west from the dust bowl of Oklahoma, to the khaki Jeeps of World War II, to the '57 Chevy cruising main street, to JFK's blood-splattered Lincoln Continental, to the tie-dyed Volkswagen bus, to the Bandit's black Trans Am, to the yuppie's BMW, to Dale Earnhardt's Goodwrench Chevrolet Monte Carlo, to the soccer mom's sport utility vehicle, it's the cars that reflect where we are, where we were and where we're going. Today, the car is art. It's a collectors item. It's a childhood. It's the biggest of big business. It's friendship. It's lethal. It's a day off. Today, the car is as much pleasure as it is a pain. So as the 2000 models hit the roads, and a new batch of cars becomes the object of our fantasies, the object of our obsession, it's time to celebrate man's favorite invention, the automobile. Which will no doubt continue to shape our lives, draw our landscape and bring us joy, just as it has for the past 10 decades. This is a century of cars. Road Rage The car has completely taken over our world and made it a globe covered with ribbons of concrete. Roads. Also parking lots, stop signs, gas stations, parking meters, street lights, toll booths, bridges. Even though there were no paved roads at the beginning of the 20th century, no traffic lights, stop signs, billboards, motels or Bob's Big Boys, people still managed to explore their world by car and they still managed to drive from coast to coast. As early as 1903, three cars were driven across America a two-cylinder Winton, a single-cylinder Packard and a single-cylinder curved-dash Oldsmobile (the trip in that car inspired the song "In My Merry Oldsmobile"). However, the Winton, the first to attempt the trip, took 63 days to complete the journey. Far from a straight shot, as it is today, drivers then often had to search for passable routes, which increased the distance to over 6000 miles, twice today's total for the same trip. Drivers also had to deal with untamed terrain, fragile tires, the elements, wild animals. And remember, gas stations were still years away, so a significant supply of fuel had to be carried along. The first paved road was laid down outside Detroit in 1908 at a cost of $13,534. It was made of concrete. Until then, a surfaced road was gravel, and often a horse was employed to pull a car out of the muddy muck. That first stretch of concrete immediately led to more paved roads. Still, driving outside the city limits was much like an off-road jamboree. Flat tires, broken axles, hip-high mud and bone-dry gas tanks made motoring adventurous, and oftentimes hazardous. But that didn't keep Americans from buying cars. America's landscape was changed forever. Today, America's more than 176 million licensed drivers pilot more than 210 million vehicles on more than 2.5 million miles of paved roads. Today, there are millions of people who have never seen a field or a mountain or a river that exists as nature intended-undisturbed by the car. Today, we set the cruise control on an endless grid of limited-access, multilane interstate highways that isolate us from the towns, the people and the scenery the automobile initially took us to. America's interstate system, the brainchild of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, again changed the landscape of our nation. Inspired by the German autobahns, Eisenhower's superhighways linked 90 percent of all major cities, and completely replaced two-lane arteries like the Lincoln Highway and Route 66. Specifications called for nothing less than four lanes separated by wide medians, with six to 10 lanes in urban areas, and no stops, no crossings except by overpasses, and controlled access via on and off ramps. No longer were road trips hops and skips from town to town. Interstate travel was impersonal. Cold even. Town names were replaced with exit numbers. The interstate's convenience was undeniable, and the roads created industrial and residential development throughout the country. But, sadly, those same highways killed off hundreds of the towns they bypassed and eventually snuffed out much of America's small-town innocence. The Burma-Shave sign was gone forever. The Road To Washington Well before America's first highway lane markers were installed in Redlands, Calif., in 1912, or America's first stop sign went up in Detroit in 1914, government was already dipping its beak deep into the car's till. States, municipalities and towns were already collecting for registrations, driver's licenses, speeding tickets and various taxes. In fact, in 1904 auto industry pioneers Henry Ford and Horace Dodge lost a suit that challenged Detroit's auto registration rules. Their argument was that if a horse-drawn vehicle didn't have to be registered, why should automobiles? This defeat didn't keep the headstrong Ford from other court battles, the most significant being his legendary fight of the Selden patent, which claimed all rights to the motor vehicle. A seven-year fight, and eventual victory, made Ford Motor Co. the dominant force in the American auto industry. Aside from allocating public money for roads, government kept its hands off the auto industry for years. During this time, the industry flourished, especially the inventive Ford. While William Crapo Durant was busy organizing General Motors across town, Ford put the moving assembly line into action in 1913, doubled workers' wages to $5 a day in 1914 and sold a million cars in 1920. But during the Depression in the early 1930s, Uncle Sam stepped in. With President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Industrial Recovery Act, the administration committed its support to collective bargaining. The provision was later incorporated into the famed Wagner Act, the National Labor Relations Act of 1936. |
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| Last Tour Update: Dec 22, 2011 |
